- Brad Whitaker
James Bond Character
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name=Brad Whitaker
portrayed=Joe Don Baker
gender=Male
affiliation=Ex-military; Self-employed/General Koskov
age= 50
status=Deceased
role=VillainBrad Whitaker is a
fictional character and a main antagonist in theJames Bond film "The Living Daylights ". He was portrayed by American actorJoe Don Baker . Baker also played Jack Wade, Bond's CIA contact in "GoldenEye " and "Tomorrow Never Dies ".Personality
Brad Whitaker is an international
black market arms dealer from theU.S. He is fascinated by war, but his actual military career is a failure, so he turns to arms dealing to organize his own personal military force. Expelled from West Point for cheating, he spends a short stint as amercenary in theBelgian Congo before working with various criminal organizations to help finance his first arms deals. He loves military history, and it is implied that heWargames various historical conflicts using automated miniature figures and effects. He even has a pantheon of "great military commanders" in his headquarters, which included some of history's most famous and infamous figures, such asAdolf Hitler ,Napoleon Bonaparte ,Genghis Khan ,Julius Caesar ,Alexander the Great , andAttila the Hun . Whitaker holds these men in high regard and calls them "surgeons who removed society's dead flesh". Perhaps the most disturbing thing about this collection is that all representations of these "surgeons" are sculpted to resemble Whitaker himself, which is highly noticeable when Whitaker hides among the statues waiting for Pushkin to visit.In the film
Whitaker joins forces with
Soviet General Georgi Koskov to secure a large shipment ofopium from the Snow Leopard Brotherhood inAfghanistan for $500,000,000 worth ofdiamond s that he had obtained from an arms deal with the Soviets. At the same time, they attempt to use Bond to eliminate the Soviet head of secret operations,General Pushkin , on the basis that he has instituted an ongoing operation called "Smert Shpionam" meaning "Death to Spies." Actually, it is their men, especially Koskov's henchman Necros, who are involved in killing British secret service agents. After thwarting Whitaker's plans, Bond hunts him down at hisTangier headquarters and kills him after a game of cat-and-mouse in his gaming room, with him using high-tech weapons (such as alight machine gun with an integral ballistic shield), and Bond using hisWalther PPK . After Bond hides behind a bust of British commander Wellington, he sets his key-ring finder behind it. Whitaker gets right in front of it, and the key-ring finder explodes, triggered by Bond's wolf whistle. The explosion topples the bust and podium on top of Whitaker, crushing him.
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